Just like birthdays, anniversaries, or a graduation; it is a loving tradition and always appropriate to bring a gift for a coming-out party. This can be a really big step for any man or woman when they decide it is time to come forward to friends and family and reveal that they are gay. Give your loved one a strong show of support by gifting them with a crystal rainbow mobile.
Such a beautiful gift makes a delightful home accent for anyone. However, the symbolism of rainbows has special significance to GBLT communities. Not everyone realizes just how many homosexuals were sent to Nazi death camps during World War II.
Certainly most everyone on the planet is familiar with the yellow Star of David that the Jews were forced to wear during the German Nazi era. Few history books talked about the pink and black up-side down triangles that thousands of men and women were also forced to wear. These symbols were even used to identify nuns, priests, bishops, and Catholic monks.
Homosexuals have been demonized and labeled an abomination by just about every fundamentalist type cultish organization, including the Nazi Party. There are some moderate and even liberal religious people who do not judge the gay lifestyle harshly, but those people are few and far between. For now the United States remains entrenched in a completely irrelevant debate about the so-called sanctity of marriage due to fundamentalist views being pushed on others.
The Nazi Party took their perspective of homosexuality being deviant to the next level when it came to their treatment of the Catholic Clergy. Simply taking an oath of celibacy was regarded as a rejection of any racial purity they may have possessed. Deviating from their planned society in any way resulted in being herded in with the Jews, and was a death sentence for these unfortunate souls.
The Catholic clerics were also regarded as deviating due to the oaths that they were expected to take and live up to in order to obtain their station within the Church. In short, making a commitment to maintain celibacy throughout life was viewed as a deviation. The Nazi community did not see this taking an oath as a commitment, but rather, as a rejection of what they considered normal sexual relations between men and women.
They circulated extensive paperwork to the community explaining how the Jewish race had out-bred the Aryan race, and this could not be tolerated by them or any other inferior race. People of Aryan blood were expected to have children. The best genetics for women to breed with during this time were, conveniently, high-ranking soldiers of the Nazi Armed Forces.
For years gay men and women have worn these upside-down pink and black triangles as a show of pride and solidarity with those who suffered and died in this atrocity. However, during the Nineties a change began to take place. Rather than wearing the symbol assigned by the Hitler minions, which was considered by many as focusing on a negative event in history, they began to wear the symbol of an upside-down triangle with the colors of the rainbow as a way to bring a positive message while still acknowledging history.
Such a beautiful gift makes a delightful home accent for anyone. However, the symbolism of rainbows has special significance to GBLT communities. Not everyone realizes just how many homosexuals were sent to Nazi death camps during World War II.
Certainly most everyone on the planet is familiar with the yellow Star of David that the Jews were forced to wear during the German Nazi era. Few history books talked about the pink and black up-side down triangles that thousands of men and women were also forced to wear. These symbols were even used to identify nuns, priests, bishops, and Catholic monks.
Homosexuals have been demonized and labeled an abomination by just about every fundamentalist type cultish organization, including the Nazi Party. There are some moderate and even liberal religious people who do not judge the gay lifestyle harshly, but those people are few and far between. For now the United States remains entrenched in a completely irrelevant debate about the so-called sanctity of marriage due to fundamentalist views being pushed on others.
The Nazi Party took their perspective of homosexuality being deviant to the next level when it came to their treatment of the Catholic Clergy. Simply taking an oath of celibacy was regarded as a rejection of any racial purity they may have possessed. Deviating from their planned society in any way resulted in being herded in with the Jews, and was a death sentence for these unfortunate souls.
The Catholic clerics were also regarded as deviating due to the oaths that they were expected to take and live up to in order to obtain their station within the Church. In short, making a commitment to maintain celibacy throughout life was viewed as a deviation. The Nazi community did not see this taking an oath as a commitment, but rather, as a rejection of what they considered normal sexual relations between men and women.
They circulated extensive paperwork to the community explaining how the Jewish race had out-bred the Aryan race, and this could not be tolerated by them or any other inferior race. People of Aryan blood were expected to have children. The best genetics for women to breed with during this time were, conveniently, high-ranking soldiers of the Nazi Armed Forces.
For years gay men and women have worn these upside-down pink and black triangles as a show of pride and solidarity with those who suffered and died in this atrocity. However, during the Nineties a change began to take place. Rather than wearing the symbol assigned by the Hitler minions, which was considered by many as focusing on a negative event in history, they began to wear the symbol of an upside-down triangle with the colors of the rainbow as a way to bring a positive message while still acknowledging history.
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